Roles and Personas

Roles control which tasks users have access to and can also be used as a communication tool to share information with a group of users. From Core, platform managers can manage roles and add additional roles.

Personas automatically group tasks for quick access.
There are two types of personas, Constituent and Application.

The platform manager role is considered the “super user,” although it doesn't have access to every persona and task.

For example, a user with only the platform manager role added could not offer courses in onCampus or view medical data in onRecord.

However, a platform manager can impersonate any other user in the system with any role to access most tasks. For example, he might impersonate an academic group manager to access the task for offering courses.

Since these are task-based, users often have access to multiple application personas.

For example, academic group managers have access to onCampus because most tasks within the role are academic tasks and are grouped into onCampus. However, academic group managers also have access to Core for tasks such as Departments & Courses, Blocks, and Buildings.